USD Magazine Spring 2023

titions. We got married in Austin in February 2022! Next year, I will have served 10 years as a civil servant and we’re looking forward to starting a family. We recently bought our first home in San Antonio.” [ 2 0 1 2 ] MEGAN EILERS (BA) graduated from Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law in 2018 and is work- ing as in-house privacy counsel at Western Digital Corporation. TYLER WILSON (BA) is an attor- ney for Flores & Pelaez-Prada in San Antonio, Texas. He and his wife of six years, Cristina, have two sons: Bennett, 3; and Noah, 1. MICHAEL ZARCONI (JD) has been selected for inclusion in the 2023 edition of Best Lawyers in ŀĸŅļĶĴп Łĸņ Ňł ĴŇĶĻ in the fields of commercial litigation and insurance law. He works for the firm Sullivan Hill Rez & Engel, which provides “full-service repre- sentation to clients in a variety of industries with an emphasis in in- solvency, construction disputes, insurance coverage, real estate, business disputes, civil litigation and transactional work.” [ 2 0 1 3 ] NATALY (YOSEF) CARAS (BA) writes, “My husband, Zac Caras ’13 (BBA), and I met at USD. We have been happily together for more than 10 years. Zac is exceling in his data analytics position for a start-up known as Klover, and I’m practic- ing real estate law. We live in Chi- cago now. We are so, so grateful to USD for bringing us together!” TARA IGUIDBASHIAN (BA) reports that she “is now corporate partnerships activation account manager for Kroenke Sports and Entertainment (Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche, Colorado Rapids, Colorado Mammoth).” ROMYN SABATCHI (BBA) reports that she played Lady Cap- ulet in Romeo and Juliet and Nikki in Both Your Houses for the 2022 Hawaii Shakespeare Festival. ALEX SHUSKO (BA) reports that spouse Erin (Hong) ’13 (BA) com- pleted her DDS from UCLA in 2017, and has been in practice in New York, California and soon, Scottsdale, Arizona. Alex complet-

clinical psychology at Pennsylvania State University in Fall 2022. TARA VUKOVICH (JD) has a new position as business and construc- tion defect litigation attorney at Lorber Greenfield & Polito LLP. KENNETH YEE (MS) writes, “After obtaining my master’s de- gree in cybersecurity operations and leadership, I was able to switch careers to work as an IT specialist in 2020. I will transition to infor- mation system security officer.” 2020s [ 2 0 2 0 ] MICHAEL APOSTOL (BA) is a staff research associate in the Translational Neuroimaging Lab at UCLA. He is testing whether noninvasive brain stimulation influences withdrawal symptoms in people who smoke cigarettes. AMANDA HOLBROOK (BA) will attend the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, to pur- sue her PhD in clinical science. She is looking forward to pursuing re- search and working toward becom- ing a licensed clinical psychologist. ASHLYNN ROSS (BA) is a sec- ond-year student in the master’s program at Yale University’s Di- vinity School. JAY SEVILLA (MA) is an academ- ic advisor for UC Berkeley. CHINONYE WAMKPAH (BA) joined the Master of Public Health program in Behavioral Social Health Education Sciences at Emory Uni- versity in Fall 2022. [ 2 0 2 1 ] JOSEPH EYERMAN (MS) writes, “Getting my master’s from USD was the best thing I could have done for my career. More important, I became a better version of myself thanks to the LEPSL program.” SCOTT OMAHEN (MSN) is cur- rently working at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in the Cardio- vascular Intensive Care Unit. [ 2 0 2 2 ] ALEXA ANDRADE (BA) is pursu- ing a master’s degree in cognitive

ed his MD from Creighton in 2017, completed ophthalmology training in 2022 and started practice in Scottsdale in August 2022. [ 2 0 1 6 ] KEITH VAN WAGNER (JD) was selected to be the group program manager for the County of San Diego’s new Public Records Act Unit, which is responsible for coor- dinating responses to all county- wide Public Records Act requests. [ 2 0 1 7 ] LAUREN (RILEY) BAGIAN (BA) and Mike Bagian ’16 (BS/BA) are hap- py to announce their recent marriage. KATELYN JOHNSON (BA) re- ports that she has moved back to San Diego from Seattle for a new position at the Oceanside Arts Museum. [ 2 0 1 8 ] GARY COUCH (BS/BA) married Alexis Dachs ’17 (BA) on Sept. 24, 2022. VICKY (MADERA) JAMISON (MA) is working as a master somme- lier for Talbott Vineyards in Carmel, California. She also volunteers with anti-human-trafficking organiza- tions in Salinas, California. She is married and has a 2-year-old son. KIRAN LONG-IYER (BA) was recently a guest speaker for USD’s Psychology and Behavior Neurosci- ence Club this semester. They dis- cussed their career trajectory from working at a start-up that creates fiber photometry imaging systems for use in neuroscience research to their current research at UC Davis in the Tian Lab probing neuromod- ulation in the brain. [ 2 0 1 9 ] DELILAH BISHOP (BA) is a co-founder of and producer at Be Kind Studios, a boutique stills and film production team. EARVIN BUCKNER (MA) recent- ly got married. ELLIE PETTY (BA) joined the doctoral program in chemical and biological sciences at Scripps Research in Fall 2022. McKENNA SAKAMOTO (BA) is a neuropsychology research coordi- nator at the VA San Diego Healthcare System. She began a PhD program in

science in education at Columbia University. ALI BELL (BA) accepted a posi- tion as an environmental educator with AmeriCorps at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. BRENNAN HARRIS (BA) traveled through Europe and other countries with two of her best friends after graduation to explore other cultures and possible jobs or graduate school opportunities abroad. AKEMI ITO (BA) joined the neu- roscience PhD program at Boston University in the fall of 2022. MICHELLE NGUYEN (BA) is pursuing a master’s program in genetic counseling at Stanford University. ANAHI BUSTILLOS SALAZAR (BA) is joining the neurobiology PhD program at the University of Chicago. RILEY WEEDEN (BA) is pursu- ing graduate school for a master’s degree in mental health counseling at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. SAMUEL WHITE (MS) got mar- ried on Jan. 1, 2022. “We moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for my wife’s residency and I got a job as the property manager of a 52-acre real estate development,” he writes. In Memor iam TRUSTEE EMERITUS A. EU- GENE (“GENE”) TREPTE passed away at the age of 97 in mid-Sep- tember of 2022. He continued his father and grandfather’s legacy of building major San Diego landmark buildings as president of the Trepte Construction Company, which was founded in 1895. Celeste, his wife of more than six decades, passed away in 2014. He is survived by his three daughters, nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren as well as his sister. Send Class Notes Submit class notes via email to classnotes@sandiego.edu.

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